DoD Awards Grants to Minority Institutions
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE—No. 487-08
U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131/697-5132
Public contact: http://www.defenselink.mil/faq/comment.html or +1 (703) 428-0711 +1
The Department of Defense announced today plans to award 21 grants totaling $14.1 million to 17 minority institutions as part of the fiscal 2008 DoD Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions Infrastructure Support Program.
The grants will enhance education programs and research capabilities at the recipient institutions in scientific disciplines critical to national security and the DoD.
This announcement is the result of competition for infrastructure-support funding conducted for the office of Defense Research and Engineering by the Army Research Office and the Air Force office of Scientific Research. The fiscal 2008 program solicitation received 73 proposals in response to a broad agency announcement issued in November 2007.
Research grants ranging from $430,000 to $785,000 will have a performance period of 36 months. Grants will be made by the Army Research Office.
All awards are subject to the successful completion of negotiations between DoD and the academic institutions.
The list of recipients for fiscal year 2008 funding can be found on the Web at: http://preview.defenselink.mil/news/hbcu.pdf .
(Posted on June 20, 2008)
Comments
DoD grants may go to HBCU but the Principal Investigators listed are clearly not African-American. Most appear to be from foreign countries.
IMO most HCBU rely almost completely on profs from foreign countries for math, science, and engineering.
There is a major shortage of profs in those fields and any African-American Ph.D. who meets minimum academic qualifications can get a position in an Ivy-league school with fantastic salary/benefit packages.
Posted by at 7:00 PM on June 20
“DoD Awards Grants to Minority Institutions,”
This, of course, proves unequivocally that the DOD is not wasting money on only $500 toilet seats.
Posted by ice at 8:38 PM on June 20
Yet another reason to “cheat” on your income taxes.
Posted by jewamongyou at 10:07 PM on June 20
I guess that places such as Los Alamos, MIT and JPL are no longer capable of conducting viable research for the military?? I seriously doubt that we American taxpayers are going to have to worry about things like that much longer. At some point there is not going to be enough money for give aways and for stealing by our politicians and then the give aways will stop. Can anyone point to any significant contributions to the scientific community by these “historically black institutions”??
Posted by Skip at 12:26 AM on June 21
Oh joy. When I was in Officer Candidate School, we had several people from historically black colleges. They couldn’t pass the simplest tests and flunked out in less than 6 weeks. This was 30 years ago, you’d of thought the military would have gotten the picture by now.
Posted by Cliff Yablonski at 2:42 AM on June 21
We are long past hiring the best man for the job or the best company/organization for the mission. Now everyone except whitey is entitled to a handout.
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 11:57 AM on June 21
“Oh joy. When I was in Officer Candidate School, we had several people from historically black colleges.
- Posted by Cliff Yablonski at 2:42 AM on June 21”
I was also in OCS 30 years ago. I was in the ‘Pensacola Pressure Cooker” NAS Pensacola FL. One black - same story.
I’ve got an idea! Reinstitute IQ tests. Identify the blacks who are able to success in higher education and give them a free college education. The rest can be directed to trade schools if they can manage that. That’s the best we can do.
- Realist in Atlanta
Posted by Realist in Atlanta at 1:50 PM on June 21
“DoD grants may go to HBCU but the Principal Investigators listed are clearly not African-American. Most appear to be from foreign countries. IMO most HCBU rely almost completely on profs from foreign countries for math, science, and engineering.”
This is true. Most professors in science and engineering at HBCUs are foreign - chinese, indians, eastern europeans. Although such a job would be a step down for a white american academic, it is apparently viewed as a step up for people oversees.
“There is a major shortage of profs in those fields and any African-American Ph.D. who meets minimum academic qualifications can get a position in an Ivy-league school with fantastic salary/benefit packages.”
Not true - there is no great demand for professors. No great demand for scientists or engineers, despite what the professional societies say. And the technical faculties at elite schools are still highly selective - very few black profs there.
Posted by at 7:00 PM on June 20”
Posted by S.L. Cain at 2:37 PM on June 21
“Yet another excuse to ‘cheat’ on your income taxes.”
—Jewamongyou.
Actually, it is an excellent reason to work only at the minimum level necessary to meet the needs of yourself and your family, and thus not “owe” much in income taxes in the first place. There are even tax-deferred college savings plans where one can sock away money for one’s children.
Suppose I wanted a new car, even though the 1995 Saturn is one thing I’ll never get rid of. That would cost $20,000. A better car might be $30,000, so we’ll round out to $25K. Income tax and SSI would be a combined 35%, approximately, so dividing through, I would have to earn $38,000 to buy a $25,000 car, of which the government keeps $13,000 to use on projects that will directly harm me, my family, my neighbors and you. I simply don’t need a new car badly enough to want to give them $13,000 so they can pay someone to raise another serial rapist, or buy a hammer from some defense contractor fat-cats.
It’s summer, and I wanted another pair of shorts. A new pair at Wal Mart would have been $16, plus sales tax, so I would have had to earn $25 to buy them, after various levels of government took their $9 in protection money. What we did instead was use a pair of $16 construction worker’s pants I had bought four years ago, and which were out at the knees and the left rear pocket in tatters. We cut them off and re-hemmed them as shorts. Using material from the cut-off legs, we made a new left rear pocket. Total cost of rehabilitating a pair of pants ready for the trash into a pair of shorts good for a few summers? Zero. The government’s cut? Zero. They get nothing.
My wife’s sewing table was coming apart. It was a folding table with steel legs and a vinyl-surfaced particle-board top. A Japanese fellow I had worked with 15 years ago gave it to me when he and his wife moved back to Kyoto; they had been using it as their kitchen table while in the United States. I have a basement full of lumber, so I made a new top for it, and fitted the old legs to that. All I had to buy was oak trim to go around the edges of the wood, so it would look nice. I already had plenty of wood glue, stain, and marine spar varnish. Total cost: about $4, which really means $6, but the $2 the government got won’t go far propping up a corrupt Third-World despot.
With three people and plenty of things in a 2000 square-foot townhouse, organization is vital, I made a sort of modern, modular tantzen out of plywood. Have you ever seen a crazy old man stop his car to snag a piece of plywood he saw in the street? I’m one of them. Plywood looks nasty, but when sanded smooth and laquered to an iridescent glassy black Japanese-style finish, it looks like it could be anything. It has secret compartments, some which can be found and lock, and some which wouldn’t be found. A good $400 piece of furniture, on which I spent maybe 20 for the sandpaper and laquer, which really means $30, so the government got only ten dollars with which to wreck someone’s life instead of $200.
I was wearing a Holubar parka that I’d had since the age of 17 until last autumn, for 24 winters, when my wife and I went out to look at a new winter coat for me. A good “North Face” parka was $300, and I just about wept. I didn’t need a new coat that badly, but since my wife doesn’t really like me in a WW-2 British trenchcoat when we’re together, she made me a reversed-fleece “Scottish-gamekeeper’s” sheepskin coat instead, for less than half that $300. That was about $80 the government didn’t get.
We drink beer, cider and honey mead, all of which I brew at home. Five gallons of apple-lemon cider requires 50 cents worth of wine yeast, two pounds of beet sugar, eight cans of frozen apple juice concentrate, and four cans of frozen lemonade concentrate. It comes out at about 10% after the secondary fermentation. It runs a bit less than $3 a gallon to make. Five gallons of honey mead needs six pounds of honey, two pounds of sugar and 50 cents worth (a half-packet) of wine yeast, so also runs under $3 a gallon. Watermelon cider is really cheap, and I make at least one batch every summer. It ferments quickly, too, and so doesn’t tie up a fermenter very long, the way meads or high-citrus ciders do. These are really good-tasting, dry and not a bit sweet. I bottle in some 1 liter reagent bottles I ordered from Aldrich through an old employer - I reimbursed them - and use a teaspoon of sugar in each bottle for the secondary fermentation, which carbonates the drinks. Last year’s pear cider was the best stuff I’ve ever made. At under $3 a gallon, even when I am not using fruit my wife and our neighbors pick ourselves, that works out to 75 cents or less for a liter. The worst malt liquor runs over $2, but between sales tax, federal taxes and income taxes, that is at least $2 a liter the government doesn’t get.
If you don’t need to spend it, why bother even earning it? So they can take it from you and use it to hurt you? I paid off my mortgage in 2004, eight years into a 30-year mortgage. They can’t tax that, except for the property taxes and HOA dues I’d have to pay anyway.
If you don’t need it, don’t buy it. If you don’t buy it, don’t work to earn the money. Spend the time with your family and friends instead. When you build a kite and fly it in the park with your kids, or have a potluck with your neighbors, or go hiking, you are starving the Monster of the money it needs to continue hurting you.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 2:37 PM on June 21
“Oh joy. When I was in Officer Candidate School, we had several people from historically black colleges.
- Posted by Cliff Yablonski at 2:42 AM on June 21”
I was also in OCS 30 years ago. I was in the ‘Pensacola Pressure Cooker” NAS Pensacola FL. One black - same story.
Assigned to Special Forces recon units, 3 1/2 years Viet-Nam, 1 black.
Posted by Skip at 12:36 AM on June 22
The Pentagon once denied that they engaged in any kind of affirmative action. I knew that was a total sham when they filed amicus curiae briefs in favor of affirmative action in the courts.
Posted by Question Diversity at 9:26 PM on June 22
Why does the Army give grants to non-white organizations? Easy. The Army does not recognize racism towards whites. See, according to the Army’s Equal Opportunity Program, the white race is the only race capable of racism. Minorities are allowed to celebrate their heritage but white Soldiers are not allowed to. In fact, according to the Army’s Equal Opportunity Program, White-Americans played little to no role in American history and society. So why not give grants to minorities since the Army believes they are the only ones that contributed to American society? These statements are not my opinions. They are in offical Army publications.
Most, if not all, Army Soldiers are aware of the double standards. White Soldiers are not willing to discuss it out of fear of being labeled racist and punished under the military’s vast legal system. Actually, many black Soldiers do not support the EO program’s teachings either but they do not say anything either! So I, wrote a book about the anti-white policies of the Army. Help spread the news and help end the anti-white policies in America. Read more about is at www.eodoublestandard.net.
Posted by mills at 10:42 AM on June 26